Each epileptic seizure could be the last for Giorgi It is impossible to watch the agony of Giorgi, Nini and their mother Megi without tears. It is impossible to get to know them and not go crazy with worry. Only a mother can endure so much – a guardian angel sent by God.
Megi: My son has a full set of serious illnesses: epilepsy, cerebral palsy, autism. My son has experienced clinical death four times. Do you know how many times people suggested that I get rid of Gio and start living? They tried to convince me to send him to an orphanage or to a special institution for intellectually disabled children. Could you do that? I couldn’t. Could you get rid of your child, whom they saved from the clutches of death four times?

Look, auntie, we only have one little piece of bread left!” – that’s how two-year-old Nikusha greeted me at the doorstep and burst into tears bitterly. The worst part is that this piece still needs to be shared among five people. Nino, mother (30 years old): Can you imagine what a trial it is for a mother to watch her child cry from hunger? I am seriously ill, I have epilepsy. So, when my son and I were discharged from the maternity ward, I couldn’t even breastfeed him. There was no money for baby formula, we did not even have a feeding bottle. My poor son, how hard he cried, he was in agony, I thought he would suffocate! I got scared and called an ambulance. The doctors immediately realized the child was hungry, and the ambulance driver bought the baby a whole crate of formula and a bottle. Thanks to the kindness of strangers, we managed to survive!

For 18 years, a mother has been feeding her sick son with her own hands. Luka has been intellectually disabled since birth, and he cannot talk – he only makes some sounds. As if the suffering from the illness of one child wasn’t enough, fate dealt another cruel blow to this unfortunate mother – her 5-year-old daughter, Mariam, was diagnosed with an intellectual disability too. Mariam also struggles to talk. This mother, deprived by life, does not have the money to take her children to a doctor. The mother suffers, the children suffer.

Lazare: I don’t remember what I ate yesterday… Mom brings food from the free kitchen, but it’s not enough for everyone. There are four children in our family. Whoever gets to it first, eats. I didn’t get any because I was playing outside. So I stayed hungry. God forbid anyone should have to look into their own children’s hungry eyes every day and not be able to feed them. Let’s unite and help these wonderful children. We believe in your kindness and compassion! Doing good is easier than it seems!

“You know how bad it is when hunger grips your stomach! We’re always hungry, and we live very poorly. And Mom doesn’t have the money to buy us even one candy to share. We only buy bread. Bread for lunch, bread before bed…soon we’ll start looking like loaves ourselves,” little Andria giggles, not realizing there’s nothing funny about his words. And he wonders why Mom starts crying at such a funny joke…but what else can a desperate mother do when she can’t feed her children? When they ask God to turn a piece of bread into something tasty? “You can do that, right?” Andria looks naively at the sky and shows his bread to God. “Turn my bread into meat!”

“I’ve never tasted anything tastier! Do you like cakes? ” – 6-year-old Vakhtang asks me with curiosity, standing by the entrance of a wretched ruin, looking like a bombsite. “Do people really live here? – I ask to myself, and answer out loud to the kid: – Yes, and what else do you like to eat?” – “Semolina and pasta … Mommy does not cook anything else. And I dream of a cake! Please come in, don’t be afraid!”